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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Center Director Jim Kennedy introduces U.S. Reps. Dave Weldon and Tom Feeney in a Town Hall meeting at KSC. Weldon and Feeney commented on the new mission for NASA outlined by President George W. Bush Jan. 14. The congressmen and Kennedy also answered questions from employees in the audience.

MSFC Director Todd May takes questions from audience at All Hands meeting.

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, answer questions from the audience after speaking about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In a Town Hall meeting at KSC, Center Director Jim Kennedy (center) joined U.S. Reps. Dave Weldon (left) and Tom Feeney (right) to discuss the new mission for NASA outlined by President George W. Bush Jan. 14. The congressmen and Kennedy also answered questions from employees in the audience.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --After a Town Hall meeting at KSC, Center Director Jim Kennedy and U.S. Reps. Dave Weldon and Tom Feeney pause for a photo before heading to the NASA-KSC News Center for a press conference. Weldon and Feeney discussed the new mission for NASA outlined by President George W. Bush Jan. 14. The congressmen and Kennedy also answered questions from employees in the audience.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney addresses employees in a Town Hall meeting at KSC with comments on the new mission for NASA outlined by President George W. Bush Jan. 14. He shared the stage with U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon and Center Director Jim Kennedy. All three later answered questions from employees in the audience.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon addresses employees in a Town Hall meeting at KSC with comments on the new mission for NASA outlined by President George W. Bush Jan. 14. He shared the stage with U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney and Center Director Jim Kennedy. All three later answered questions from employees in the audience.

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba answers an audience members question during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba right, answer audience questions with the Smithsonian's Marty Kelsey, center, during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei answers an audience members question during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba right, answer audience questions with the Smithsonian's Marty Kelsey, center, during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba answers an audience members question prior to a presentation, Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba right, answer audience questions with the Smithsonian's Marty Kelsey, center, during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei right, answer audience questions with the Smithsonian's Marty Kelsey, center, during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei answers an audience members question during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

STS-129 Mission Specialist Randy Bresnick, second from right, answers a question from the audience as fellow crew members look on, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, during a presentation to staff and middle school students from the Congressional Schools of Virginia at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

STS-129 Pilot Barry Wilmore, left, answers a question from the audience as Mission Specialist Leland Melvin, looks on, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, during a presentation to staff and middle school students from the Congressional Schools of Virginia at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba listens to a question from a student during a presentation at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer answers a question from the audience, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017 at the Rock Creek Park Nature Center and Planetarium in Washington, DC. During his 136 day mission aboard the ISS, Fischer conducted two spacewalks and hundreds of scientific experiments. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answers questions from the audience after giving the opening keynote address at the Humans to Mars Summit on April 22, 2014 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Administrator Bolden spoke of NASA's path to the human exploration of Mars during his remarks. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor answers a question from the audience at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues event on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Lisa Pratt, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, answers a question from the audience during a special session titled “Planetary Protection for the Future: Science, Exploration, and Commerce” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Lisa Pratt, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer, answers a question from the audience during a special session titled “Planetary Protection for the Future: Science, Exploration, and Commerce” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine answers a question from a member of the audience at the Challenger Center Annual Conference, Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at the Lockheed Martin Global Vision Center in Arlington, VA. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Director of NASA's Glenn Research Center, Dr. Janet Kavandi answers a question from the audience at a bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues event on NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration program, Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answers questions from the audience after giving the opening keynote address at the Humans to Mars Summit on April 22, 2014 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Administrator Bolden spoke of NASA's path to the human exploration of Mars during his remarks. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Steve Clarke, Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, answers a question from the audience during an interactive STEM discussion with students attending the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba answer questions during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba answer questions during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, right, and Joe Acaba answer questions during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

JSC2004-E-15422 (30 March 2004) --- Questions came from students and teachers from Alvin, Clear Creek, Friendswood, Galena Park, Galveston and Pasadena Independent School Districts who gathered at Space Center Houston to talk with the Expedition 8 crew aboard the International Space Station on March 30, 2004. Live images of astronaut C. Michael Foale and cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri are seen on the large screen, as the two interact with the ground audience. (Teaching from Space)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, present Walt Whitman Middle School Principal Craig Herring with a montage from their Expedition 54 mission, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins answers a question from an audience member about her time onboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 48 and 49, Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space and completed her first mission when she landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in October 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience after speaking about his time onboard the International Space Station, Thursday, May 2, 2019 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. During Arnold’s 197 days onboard the International Space Station, as part of Expeditions 55 and 56, he ventured outside the space station on three spacewalks in addition to conducting numerous experiments and educational downlink events. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Michael Meyer, Lead Scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program, answers a question from the audience during a special session titled “Planetary Protection for the Future: Science, Exploration, and Commerce” at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A NASA Social participant tweets during as astronaut Joe Acaba answers questions from the audience at NASA Headquaters, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 in Washington. NASA astronaut Acaba launched to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft May 15, 2012, spending 123 days aboard as a flight engineer of the Expedition 31 and 32 crews. He recently returned to Earth on Sept. 17 after four months in low earth orbit. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

From left, NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro; Jenny Lyons, deputy manager, Launch Services Program; and Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, Commercial Crew Program, speak to the crowd during the center’s Community Leaders Update on Thursday, May 23, 2024, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The panel discussed how programs based at NASA Kennedy support the agency’s efforts to return humans to the Moon and prepare for Mars, and they answered audience questions.

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba speak about their experiences onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

A young audience member asks the panel a question during a discussion on improving air quality for health in space and on Earth, at a pop-up makerspace hosted by Future Engineers with support from NASA and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Thursday, September 21, 2017 in Chantilly, Virginia. Participants were able to create digital 3D models using Autodesk Tinkercad and watch objects being printed with Makerbot 3D printers. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Activities at the One NASA Leader-Led Workshop included a panel to answer questions from the audience. Seated here are Lynn Cline, deputy associate administrator for Space Operations, Adm. Craig Steidle, associate administrator for Exploration Systems, and Woodrow Whitlow Jr., Kennedy deputy director. The workshop included senior leadership in the Agency who talked about ongoing Transformation activities and Kennedy’s role in the Vision for Space Exploration.

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Former astronaut Drew Feustel left, answers a question from an audience member while on a panel with former astronaut Alvin Drew, center, and moderator, Earth Information Center Lead for NASA, Eleanor Stokes, during the Earth Information Center Student Engagement event at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba speak about their experiences onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Dr. John Spencer, senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion at the "NASA's New Horizons Pluto Mission: Continuing Voyager's Legacy of Exploration" event on Monday, August, 25, 2014, in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The panelists gave their accounts of Voyager's encounter with Neptune and discussed their current assignments on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, of Texas, left; answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion at an event celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on Monday, June 23, 2014 in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. The event highlighted the influence of the Civil Rights Act on NASA. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience after speaking about his time onboard the International Space Station, Thursday, May 2, 2019 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. During Arnold’s 197 days onboard the International Space Station, as part of Expeditions 55 and 56, he ventured outside the space station on three spacewalks in addition to conducting numerous experiments and educational downlink events. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei speaks about his time onboard the International Space Station during a presentation to students at Walt Whitman Middle School, Thursday, June 14, 2018 in Alexandria, Va. Vande Hei and astronaut Joe Acaba answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, far left, answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion on the search for life beyond Earth in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. The panel discussed how NASA's space-based observatories are making new discoveries and how the agency's new telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will continue this path of discovery after its schedule launch in 2018. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, left, and Joe Acaba speak about their experiences onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At a celebration for the STS-114 crew and the successful return to flight mission, members of the crew answer questions from the audience of employees and family members in the Universe Theater. At left, with the microphone, is Pilot James Kelly. At the podium are Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson and Wendy Lawrence. The crew returned to Florida especially for the celebration in the KSC Visitor Complex.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Jackelynne Silva-Martinez, an Aerospace Engineer in Mission Planning Operations at NASA’s Johnson Space Center listen to a question from a member of the audience during the Global Networking Forum Young Professionals Town Hall at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, left, and Mark Vande Hei, right, speak about their time onboard the International Space Station, Friday, June 15, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Acaba and Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center showcased it's various projects for the public in Huntsville, Alabama's Big Spring Park. Exhibits were displayed by all of the various directorates of the Center with employee volunteers explaining all aspects of their projects. Adding to the festivities was the attendance of retired NASA astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson. “Hoot” Gibson reminisces about his history as an astronaut and takes questions from the audience at NASA Day in the Park.

NASA astronaut Joe Acaba speaks about his experiences onboard the International Space Station during "What's New in Aerospace," Thursday, June 14, 2018 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Acaba and astronaut Mark Vande Hei answered questions from the audience and spoke about their experiences aboard the International Space Station for 168 days as part of Expedition 53 and 54. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience after speaking about his time onboard the International Space Station, Thursday, May 2, 2019 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. During Arnold’s 197 days onboard the International Space Station, as part of Expeditions 55 and 56, he ventured outside the space station on three spacewalks in addition to conducting numerous experiments and educational downlink events. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center showcased it's various projects for the public in Huntsville, Alabama's Big Spring Park. Exhibits were displayed by all of the various directorates of the Center with employee volunteers explaining all aspects of their projects. Adding to the festivities was the attendance of retired NASA astronaut Robert "Hoot" Gibson. “Hoot” Gibson reminisces about his history as an astronaut and takes questions from the audience at NASA Day in the Park.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Participants in the all-hands meeting respond to questions from the audience. Topics discussed included the year ahead at KSC. Seated at the table (from left) are Steve Francois, manager of Launch Services Program; Pepper Phillips, deputy director of the Constellation Program office; Parsons; Russ Romanella, director of the ISS & Spacecraft Processing Directorate; Jeff Angermeier, chief of the Project Control office in the Launch Vehicle Processing Directorate; and Shannon Bartell, director of NASA Safety and Mission Assurance. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, second from left, answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion on the search for life beyond Earth in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. The panel discussed how NASA's space-based observatories are making new discoveries and how the agency's new telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will continue this path of discovery after its schedule launch in 2018. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - During a presentation to KSC employees, former astronauts Jim Lovell (left) and Wally Schirra (right) answer questions from the audience. Lovell and Schirra visited KSC to talk about the space program and their experiences, as well as offer encouragement to workers to help get the space program "back on its feet." They visited several sites around the Center, including the RLV Hangar where Columbia debris is being collected and examined as part of the investigation into the tragedy that claimed the orbiter and lives of seven astronauts returning from mission STS-107.

Joey Hudy, Anthem, AZ, 16-year-old self-described “Maker” answers a question from the audience at the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Joey sat with the First Lady at the President’s 2014 State of the Union Address after his first shot to fame in 2012 when he attended the White House Science Fair where the President took a turn using his “extreme marshmallow cannon” to launch a marshmallow across the East Room of the White House. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Noah Petro, Artemis III project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, right, moderates questions from the audience, Friday, May 19, 2023, during an employee engagement event with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Wiseman, Glover, Hammock Koch, and Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, speaks to a crowd gathered for the 2024 Kennedy Space Center Community Leaders Update on Thursday, May 23, 2024, held at the center’s Visitor Complex. She is joined by, from left, NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro, Jenny Lyons, deputy manager, Launch Services Program, and Jeremy Parsons, deputy manager, Exploration Ground System. Together the panelists discussed how programs based at NASA Kennedy support the agency’s efforts to return humans to the Moon in preparation for Mars and answered audience questions.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Todd McNamara, center, meteorologist with the 45th Weather Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base, and Tony Mainolfi, right, chief meteorologist of WESH 2 news, take questions from the audience of the annual hurricane awareness briefing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the podium is moderator Wayne Kee, NASA emergency manager for the center. The briefing, held at the start of the 2014 hurricane season, is attended by the center's emergency hurricane coordinators and other interested employees in the KSC Training Auditorium. The briefing also is broadcast to the workforce. For more information, visit http://www.patrick.af.mil/weather. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, William Gerstenmaier, listens to a question from the audience during the Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day at NASA Headquarters on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Washington. During the event NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and other senior NASA officials discussed the progress being made on NASA's mission to capture, redirect, and explore an asteroid. NASA also announced an Asteroid Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

John Mather, Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, center, answers a question from the audience during a panel discussion on the search for life beyond Earth in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters on Monday, July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. The panel discussed how NASA's space-based observatories are making new discoveries and how the agency's new telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will continue this path of discovery after its schedule launch in 2018. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Noah Petro, Artemis III project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center moderates questions from the audience, Friday, May 19, 2023, during an employee engagement event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology, Mike Gazarik, Ph.D, listens to a question from the audience during the Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day at NASA Headquarters on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Washington. During the event NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and other senior NASA officials discussed the progress being made on NASA's mission to capture, redirect, and explore an asteroid. NASA also announced an Asteroid Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – Representatives of the social media were given the opportunity to ask questions from the experts of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, at the NASA Social held at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This NASA Social brought together mission scientists and engineers with an audience of 70 students, educators, social media managers, bloggers, photographers and videographers who were selected from a pool of 325 applicants from 45 countries to participate in launch activities and communicate their experience with social media followers. The SMAP mission is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg on Jan. 29. To learn more about SMAP, visit http://www.nasa.gov/smap. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Walt Disney World in Orlando, the crew members of space shuttle mission STS-118 answer questions from the student audience during a special event to honor the Endeavour crew. Seated from left are Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan, Dave Williams, Rick Mastracchio and Tracy Caldwell; Pilot Charlie Hobaugh; and Commander Scott Kelly. The event also honored teacher-turned-astronaut Morgan, who dedicated a plaque outside the Mission: Space attraction. Other activities included meeting with the media and a parade down Main Street. Mission STS-118 was the 119th shuttle program flight and the 22nd flight to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 8 and landed Aug. 21. The mission delivered the S5 truss, continuing the assembly of the space station. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton

At Walt Disney World in Orlando, the crew members of space shuttle mission STS-118 answer questions from the student audience during a special event to honor the Endeavour crew. Seated from left are Mission Specialists Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan, Dave Williams, Rick Mastracchio and Tracy Caldwell; Pilot Charlie Hobaugh; and Commander Scott Kelly. The event also honored teacher-turned-astronaut Morgan, who dedicated a plaque outside the Mission: Space attraction. Other activities included meeting with the media and a parade down Main Street. Mission STS-118 was the 119th shuttle program flight and the 22nd flight to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 8 and landed Aug. 21. The mission delivered the S5 truss, continuing the assembly of the space station.

Panels participants, from left, Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, former White House Science Fair participant Joey Hudy, Environmentalist and third-year law student at Elon University School of Law Tyrone Davis, White House innovation expert Cristin Dorgelo, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gill Pratt, take a question from the audience during the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The panel members participating in the Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting entertain questions and comments from the audience assembled in the Training Auditorium. From left, they are James W. Kennedy, KSC director; Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The panel members participating in the Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting entertain questions and comments from the audience assembled in the Training Auditorium. From left, they are James W. Kennedy, KSC director; Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision.

Panels participants, from left, Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy, former White House Science Fair participant Joey Hudy, Environmentalist and third-year law student at Elon University School of Law Tyrone Davis, White House innovation expert Cristin Dorgelo, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Gill Pratt, take a question from the audience during the annual White House State of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (SoSTEM) address, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Center Director James W. Kennedy addresses KSC employees assembled in the Training Auditorium for a Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision. Other participants included Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center. Following their remarks, members of the panel entertained questions and comments from the audience.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC employees assemble in the Training Auditorium for a Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision. Panel members included James W. Kennedy, KSC director; Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at the Johnson Space Center. Following their remarks, members of the panel entertained questions and comments from the audience.

Robert Pearce, Associate Administrator for NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, left, moderates questions from the audience for retired U.S. Air Force Honorary Brigadier General Charles McGee speaks with NASA astronaut Alvin Drew during a Black History Month program titled “Trailblazers, The Story of a Tuskegee Airman,” Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. McGee, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, was a career officer in the Air Force also serving during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Over his 30 years of service he flew 409 combat missions. Of the 355 Tuskegee pilots who flew in combat, McGee is one of only nine surviving. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio discusses the highlights of the Expedition 38 mission to the International Space Station with the audience at a post-flight presentation. The Space Flight Awareness Program hosted Mastracchio's presentation for employees in the KSC Training Auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. An Expedition 38/39 crew member, Mastracchio launched to the station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 6, 2013, and returned to Earth on May 13, 2014, after 188 days in space. Following Mastracchio's remarks, employees were given the opportunity to ask questions and to meet him in person. To read Mastracchio's biography, visit http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mastracc.html. For more information on Expedition 38, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition38. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum production of Stem in 30, Friday, May 3, 2019 at Six Flags America theme park in Upper Marlboro, MD. During Expedition 55/56, Arnold completed three spacewalks for a total of 19.5 hours outside the space station, and concluded his 197 day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in Oct. 2018. He also flew to the space station on shuttle mission STS-119 to deliver the final pair of power-generating solar array wings. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC addresses KSC employees assembled in the Training Auditorium for a Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision. Other participants included James W. Kennedy, KSC director; Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center. Following their remarks, members of the panel entertained questions and comments from the audience.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Lynn Cline (right), Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight, looks on as James W. Kennedy (left), KSC director, and Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management, take questions from the audience attending the Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting in the Training Auditorium. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision. Other panel members were Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC, and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio makes his opening remarks to the audience at a post-flight presentation on the Expedition 38 mission to the International Space Station. The Space Flight Awareness Program hosted Mastracchio's presentation for employees in the KSC Training Auditorium at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. An Expedition 38/39 crew member, Mastracchio launched to the station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 6, 2013, and returned to Earth on May 13, 2014, after 188 days in space. Following Mastracchio's remarks, employees were given the opportunity to ask questions and to meet him in person. To read Mastracchio's biography, visit http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mastracc.html. For more information on Expedition 38, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition38. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum production of Stem in 30, Friday, May 3, 2019 at Six Flags America theme park in Upper Marlboro, MD. During Expedition 55/56, Arnold completed three spacewalks for a total of 19.5 hours outside the space station, and concluded his 197 day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in Oct. 2018. He also flew to the space station on shuttle mission STS-119 to deliver the final pair of power-generating solar array wings. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Bob Sieck, former Director of Space Shuttle Processing at KSC addresses KSC employees assembled in the Training Auditorium for a Culture Change Process All Hands Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was for employees to gain further insight into the Agency’s Vision for Space Exploration and the direction cultural change will take at KSC in order to assume its role within this vision. Other participants included James W. Kennedy, KSC director; Jim Jennings, Deputy Associate Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management; Lynn Cline, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Flight; and Jim Wetherbee, astronaut and Technical Assistant to the Director of Safety and Mission Assurance at Johnson Space Center. Following their remarks, members of the panel entertained questions and comments from the audience.

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold answers questions from the audience about his time onboard the International Space Station (ISS) during a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum production of Stem in 30, Friday, May 3, 2019 at Six Flags America theme park in Upper Marlboro, MD. During Expedition 55/56, Arnold completed three spacewalks for a total of 19.5 hours outside the space station, and concluded his 197 day mission when he landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan in Oct. 2018. He also flew to the space station on shuttle mission STS-119 to deliver the final pair of power-generating solar array wings. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Kennedy Space Center Director and former astronaut Bob Cabana, right, introduces astronaut Rick Mastracchio to the audience at a post-flight presentation on the Expedition 38 mission to the International Space Station. The Space Flight Awareness Program hosted Mastracchio's presentation for employees in the KSC Training Auditorium. An Expedition 38/39 crew member, Mastracchio launched to the station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 6, 2013, and returned to Earth on May 13, 2014, after 188 days in space. Following Mastracchio's remarks, employees were given the opportunity to ask questions and to meet him in person. To read Mastracchio's biography, visit http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mastracc.html. For more information on Expedition 38, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition38. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA Kennedy Space Center Director and former astronaut Bob Cabana, right, introduces astronaut Rick Mastracchio to the audience at a post-flight presentation on the Expedition 38 mission to the International Space Station. The Space Flight Awareness Program hosted Mastracchio's presentation for employees in the KSC Training Auditorium. An Expedition 38/39 crew member, Mastracchio launched to the station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 6, 2013, and returned to Earth on May 13, 2014, after 188 days in space. Following Mastracchio's remarks, employees were given the opportunity to ask questions and to meet him in person. To read Mastracchio's biography, visit http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/mastracc.html. For more information on Expedition 38, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition38. Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper